xxviii, 688 pages : 25 cm

A seminar on the history of Slavic politics, international relations, culture, and religion during the 6th through the 19th century

Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-635. Includes bibliographical references)

Europe to the thirteenth century -- The last Premyslides, Bohemia, and Poland -- John of Bohemia, Emperor Louis IV, and Poland -- Charles IV, emperor and king of Bohemia, and Casimir the Great, king of Poland -- The second Bulgarian empire, the rise of Serbia -- The political organization of medieval Slavic states -- Slavic medieval cultural achievements -- The Czech reformation and its aftermath -- The Russian principalities, the rise of Lithuania and Moscow, the Jagiellonian Federation -- The Jagiellonian dynastic commonwealth and the Turkish danger -- Poland-Lithuania and the Baltic -- The growth of Muscovy and its relations with Poland-Lithuania -- The Renaissance and the Slavs, Slavic cultural achievements in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- The social and political development of the western and southern Slavs from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century -- The growth of Muscovite autocracy: social and political changes in east Russia -- The Reformation and the Slavs -- The Hapsburgs, Muscovy, Poland-Lithuania, and Bohemia -- Poland, Muscovy's "time of troubles, "and the birth of the Ukraine -- The Muscovite state under the first Romanovs -- Imperial Russia and the Slavic world

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